A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends. Katherine Applegate More Quotes by Katherine Applegate More Quotes From Katherine Applegate I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. Katherine Applegate black sky blue When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside. Katherine Applegate drawing feels quiet Pain is life. Life is pain. Katherine Applegate life-is-pain pain life-is Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns. Katherine Applegate hate eye faces Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times. Katherine Applegate hard-times magic tragedy Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part. Katherine Applegate toss bananas waste Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. Katherine Applegate homework long book Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Katherine Applegate violent passionate selfish What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a short shelf life? You know, like yogurt: after a week or two they go bad. And how do you recognize the other kind of love, the kind that isn't like yogurt? The kind that's more like... I don't know, like peanut butter, that lasts forever and always tastes good? Katherine Applegate peanut-butter forever two Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens Katherine Applegate unpredictable surprise sometimes Old age is a powerful disguise. Katherine Applegate disguise powerful age It's OAT-freaking-MEAL! Katherine Applegate meals But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal Katherine Applegate regret mom stupid About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like. Katherine Applegate chocolate taste laughing Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out." (Marco) BAM! BAM! BAM! "Okay, so it's four trash cans," (Marco) " BAM! BAM! BAM! "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake) Katherine Applegate jake four hate I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away Katherine Applegate tables waiting want I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win. Katherine Applegate winning war two My favorite color is rainbow. Katherine Applegate rainbow my-favorite color Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy. Katherine Applegate mcdonalds next earth And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity. Katherine Applegate horse humanity evil
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